The bloody white baron
Subtitle: the extraordinary story of the Russian nobleman who became the last khan of Mongolia
By: James Palmer
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [elektronische middelen] :
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780786744282
Subjects: Electronic books; Military History; Generals; Biography; History
Description: Historian James Palmer relates the story of megalomaniac Baron Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, an anti-Bolshevik German Russian reactionary who in 1920 led a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen in a grand but short lived campaign to unifMongolMongul people while at the same time frightening the Russians and slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-267) and index.

Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2008.